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The legislation as introduced would allow lawmakers and state officials to leave out specifics transparency experts say are crucial to getting a full picture of financial influences.
Both the House and Senate have approved legislation to repeal a longstanding ban on hiring transportation to escort voters to polling places. Republicans say the repeal is an invitation to trouble.
Michigan allows courts to bill parents for costs of locking up their children, a system that allows debts to quickly grow to tens of thousands of dollars. The fees are so high many avoid getting their kids help. Now, the Legislature seeks a change.
‘At least it wasn’t a drunkfest,’ Michigan GOP chair Kristina Karamo says of money-losing Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference. Party needed loan to pay actor Jim Caviezel for a keynote address.
Worries about Chinese expansions into the U.S. food supply prompt legislation to bar 'adversarial entities' from buying farms in Michigan. Records show Chinese companies don't own much land, but sponsor says 'China will do whatever it takes to get a foot in the door.'
Republicans canvassers blocked a citizen ballot proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour because organizers changed a definition in the petition before collecting an estimated 360,309 voter signatures.
Michigan’s Democratic-led Senate votes to repeal a series of abortion restrictions previously enacted by Republicans. But the bills could face a roadblock in the Democratic-led House.
In one of the first public policy disputes between Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Democratic legislative leaders, the Michigan Senate votes to undo health care price controls built into a 2019 insurance law overhaul.
The toughest corporate liability shield in the nation for drug manufacturers is on the chopping block in Michigan as a repeal bill wins bipartisan support in the state Senate.
For years, Democrats have promised to improve Michigan’s failing grade on ethics and transparency. They’re now in power, but still haven’t done anything.
Michigan is one of only two states without personal financial disclosure rules for elected officials. That’s about to change. But lawmakers are writing the rules behind closed doors.
Michigan would require disclaimers on political ‘deepfakes’ and campaign ads generated using artificial intelligence under bills approved Tuesday by the House Elections Committee.
Records indicate the police sought a search warrant to arrest a 41-year-old Farmington Hills resident who has a history of Islamophobic comments and violence.
Bipartisan bills in the House and Senate aim to refocus the state’s criminal justice system around greater emphasis on rehabilitation and diversion for juvenile offenders.
Michigan has one of the nation’s toughest shield laws. That means residents can’t join in lawsuits that pay millions of dollars in settlements. Democrats move to repeal after decades of criticism.